A. lower the welfare of all Pakistanis
B. lead to increases in Pakistani consumer surplus
C. encourage Pakistan’s production of competing goods
D. encourage Pakistani workers to demand higher wages
Economics Mcqs
A specification of a maximum amount of a foreign produced good that will be allowed to enter the country over a given time period is referred to as a (an) ?
A. domestic subsidy
B. export subsidy
C. import quota
D. export quota
A tariff-rate quota ?
A. is a limit on the number of tariffs that a country can place on imports?
B. uses a single tariff along with import quotas to restrict import
C. is designed to avoid the the price increases caused by simple tariffs
D. is a two-tier tariff system intended to restrict imports?
If the home country government grants a subsidy on a domestically produced good domestic producers tend to ?
A. Capture the entire subsidy in the form of higher profits
B. Increase their level of production
C. reduce wages paid to domestic workers
D. consider the subsidy as a increase in production cost
For year the U.S government levied quotas on inexpensive oil imported from the Middle East The quotas led to cost increases for U.S consumers totaling $3 billion for oil products. An apparent justification of this policy was that ?
A. U.S oil companies and workers deserved higher incomes
B. U.S oil was of superior quality and merited higher prices
C. one should not be too dependent on foreign suppliers of crucial resources
D. The U.S government needed the quota revenue to balance its budget
Quotas are government-imposed limits on the ……… of goods trade between countries?
A. prices
B. quantity
C. revenue
D. costs
Similar to import tariffs import quotas tend to result in ?
A. higher prices and reduced imports
B. increased government revenue
C. increased consumer surplus
D. decrease producer surplus
…….. are profits that accrue to whomever has the right to import the good that is restricted by the quota?
A. quota license
B. quota rents
C. quota prices
D. None of the above
Governments around the world tend to auction quota licenses ?
A. never
B. seldom
C. often
D. always
international dumping may involve ?
A. selling goods to foreigners at a price below that charged domestic consumers
B. selling goods to foreigners at a price below the cost of production
C. antidumping duties being levied on the imported, dumped goods
D. All of the above